Our Current PhD Students
Mr Julius Bernikas
Julius's research focuses on accessibility of WebXR experiences applied to cultural heritage in collaboration with Smartify
Lead Supervisor: Dr Marco Gilardi;
Second Supervisor: Dr Gavin Baxter;
Additional Supervisor: Dr Soheeb Khan;
Assessor: Dr Paul Keir
Mr Luke Beveridge
Luke's research investigates approaches for designing approaches to extended reality gamification
Lead Supervisor: Dr Marco Gilardi;
Second Supervisors: Dr Thomas Hainey;
Additional Supervisor: Prof Keshav Dahal;
Assessor: Dr Paul Keir
Lara McIntyre
Lara's research focuses on accessibility of VR social spaces for hard of hearing and deaf individuals.
Lead Supervisor: Dr Soheeb Khan;
Second Supervisors: Dr Marco Gilardi;
Additional Supervisor: Dr Tahir Mahmood ;
Assessor: Dr Paul Keir
Mr Liam McPhee
Liam is researching UK security frameworks and their current/future impact on large-scale enterprise & telco networks.
Lead Supervisor: Dr. Sajjad Bagheri;
Second Supervisor: Prof. Keshav Dahal;
Assessor: Dr. Pablo Salva Garcia;
Miss Christina Moir
Christina's research focuses on making XR technologies more accessible to small and medium museums (smm) aimig to develop an open framework for XR adoption for smm.
Lead Supervisor: Dr Marco Gilardi;
Second Supervisor: Dr Katarzyna Kosmala;
Additional Supervisor: Dr Keshav Dahal;
Assessor: Dr Soheeb Kahn
Mr Wei Ning
Wei is researching thermal haptics and its effects in VR immersion and presence
Lead Supervisor: Dr Marco Gilardi;
Second Supervisor: Dr Thomas Hainey;
Assessor: Dr Paul Keir
YOU!
Interested in a PhD in Immersive Technologies, Esport, Serious Games, AI, Computer Animation, Computer Graphics, Visualization, Music Technologies, or Computing?
Our Alumni
Mr Raymond Holder
A Framework for Authentic Assessment in Room-Sale Virtual Reality Training Simulations
Ray’s research is to investigate the use of immersive visual and audio stimuli with simple gamification techniques, to better convey basic programming concepts prior to their translation into written instructions.
Lead Supervisor: Dr Keir
Second Supervisor: Dr Carey
Start Date 1 Oct 2018
Submission Date: 11 June 2023
Internal Examiner: Dr Baxter
External Examiner: Dr Livingstone (GSA)
Dr Andrew Gozillon
Towards increased programmability for heterogeneous computing
Andrew's research docused on programmability of heterogeneous parallel programming and template-based programming. Contributing to the C/C++ compiler community.
Lead Supervisor: Dr Keir
Second Supervisor: -
Start Date: 1 Oct 2017
Submission Date: -
VIVA Date: 08 June 2022
PhD Awarded: Sept 2022
Internal Examiner: Dr Matalonga-Motta
External Examiner: Dr Stewart (Heriot-Watt University)
Dr Scott Howie
A Framework for Authentic Assessment in Room-Sale Virtual Reality Training Simulations
Scott's research focused on developing software tools for authentic assessment and contextual feedback in room-scale virtual reality training simulations.
Lead Supervisor: Dr Gilardi
Second Supervisor: Dr Hainey
Start Date 1 Oct 2017
Submission Date: 29 April 2021
VIVA Date 09 July 2021
PhD Awarded Sept 2021
Internal Examiner: Dr Baxter
External Examiner: Prof Charissis (Glasgow Caledonian University)